Poached egg salad Nicoise Recipe

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Fresh chives, capers and black olives add lots of flavours to this classic salad with poached eggs and tuna steaks.

Ingredients

100g(4oz) fine green beans

2 large tomatoes, sliced

Fresh chives, snipped

2 large eggs

2 x 100g (4oz) fresh tuna steaks

25g (1oz) capers

50g (2oz) black olives

Vinaigrette salad dressing

Method

Cook the beans, then drain and cool.

Place the eggs in a small pan of boiling water and bring slowly to the boil. Cook for 3 mins, drain, rinse under cold water and remove shell.

In the meantime, griddle the fresh tuna steaks.

To serve, place the tuna on a bed of sliced tomato and green beans. Sprinkle over the capers, black olives and the chives. Spoon over the vinaigrette dressing then top the tuna with the lightly poached egg.